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Special reports: Updates December and earlier, 2024: Al-Shifa was a dream and a nightmare & Why is hypothermia killing Gaza’s children? & Gaza's 2024: A year of war and misery 2 Stories & When burning hospitals are no longer news 2 Stories & Genocide in Gaza: Silence is complicity Previous reports: 'Broken': Domestic violence impacts women, children in Gaza & Gaza toddlers got the polio vaccine, then an Israeli bomb took their legs & Millions in bonds for Israel put US states at odds with investment policies and earler stories  Overview special reports

November 28 - 24 and earler stories, 2024 Is Netanyahu immune from ICC arrest warrant-NO!   TRIBUTES TO MOTHERS AND CHILDREN

Shireen Abu Akleh In commemoration of Shireen Abu Akleh, the 'voice of Al Jazeera' killed while revealing the true face of israel Updated: December 6, 2024: Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war   Click here for earlier stories/news

January 2, 2025 - December 31, 2024 Food for thought 'Survivors from the West (-ern allies of netanyahu)' you'll not see photos of the ongoing inhuman deliberate mayhem/destruction of the Gazaian people. Read more and decide for yourself where you want to watch it. Gino d'Artali

December 30 - 26, 2024 'Betrayed' and 'abandoned' Sixth baby dies from severe cold Dec 31 - 27, 2024 ........................................ ............................................ ................................................. just read the actual and fact-finding news

December 10 - 7, 2024 Food for thought: 'The next one' as seen by an Iranian activist cartoonnist and yes, with the fall of assad it most likely is a matter of time before the next ones, netanyahu, khamenei, erdogan and others, will follow. Gino d'Artali Read more and decide for yourself

 When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.

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Jinha - Womens News Agency - Jan 2 2025
<<At least 13 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza
At least 13 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in Israeli airstrikes on different areas of the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
News Center- At least 13 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in Israeli airstrikes on different areas of the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. At least 11 people, including women and children, were killed and 15 others injured in Israeli airstrikes on a makeshift tent sheltering displaced families in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. An Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza killed two brothers, the news agency reported on Thursday.
Four people injured
Four Palestinians were injured late Wednesday when Israeli soldiers opened fire during a raid in the Old City of Nablus in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Thursday.
Gaza's population down by 6%
The population of Gaza has fallen 6% since the start of the war on October 7, 2023, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).
More than 45,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, have been killed, according to the Gaza's health ministry. According to the PCBS, more than 55,000 are presumed dead, as 11,000 people remain missing. About 100,000 Palestinians have left Gaza since 7 October, 2023.>> Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/at-least-13-palestinians-killed-in-israeli-airstrikes-on-gaza-36272?page=1

Al Jazeera - Jan 2 2025 - By Al Jazeera team
<<Israel attacks Gaza <humanitarian zone>, killing at least 11, wounding 15
Women, children among dead as Israel's military again attacks civilians sheltering in so-called humanitarian safe zone. At least 11 Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike on makeshift tents housing displaced people in a designated humanitarian safe zone in southern Gaza, local medics and news organisations report. The predawn attack on Thursday in the al-Mawasi area - which Israel's military declared a <safe zone> early on in its war on Gaza - is reported to have resulted in the killing of three children and two women among the 11 who died. A video clip from the aftermath of the attack showed people searching for survivors among burning tents, scattered debris, and washing lines where residents of the camp for displaced people had hung clothes to dry. The Reuters news agency reports that 15 people were also wounded in the attack, though there were no details on their condition. Israel's military did not comment on its latest attack on the humanitarian area, which has been targeted relentlessly by Israeli warplanes, drones and artillery, including the most recent attack on December 22, which killed eight people, including two children. Days earlier, Israeli tanks advanced on al-Mawasi from the southern city of Rafah, forcing dozens of families to flee northward fearing imminent attack. At least 20 people were killed and others wounded in an Israeli missile strike on tents in al-Mawasi on December 3, in what Israel's military said was the targeting of a Hamas official. On New Year's Day, Israeli attacks across Gaza killed at least 26 people with four children and a woman reported to be among those slain. Ten people were also missing among the rubble of buildings destroyed in the attack. Fifteen people, all reported to be civilians, were killed in one strike on a home where displaced people had taken shelter in Jabalia in northern Gaza, a spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza said. Israeli forces gave no warning for the attack on al-Mawasi early on Thursday morning but had earlier issued orders for all residents in northern Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp to flee three areas that it said were designated for an attack. The warning for residents to flee from Jabalia to Gaza City was described as a <pre-anaesthesia before the attack> by the Israeli military's Arabic language spokesman, Avichay Adraee. <Once again, terrorist organisations are launching rockets from your area, which has been warned many times in the past,> he said in a post on social media. Despite large parts of northern Gaza, including Jabalia, suffering almost three months of siege by Israeli forces, two United States-based defence think tanks said this week that Palestinian fighters had launched a coordinated, "multi-wave attack" on Israeli forces in Jabalia - one that was larger than most other Palestinian military operations across Gaza in recent months. The death toll from the first two days of 2025 adds to the 45,553 Palestinians, at least, who have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since launching a punishing war on the territory in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on southern Israel.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/2/israel-attacks-gaza-humanitarian-zone-killing-at-least-11-wounding-15

Al Jazeera - Jan 2 2025
<<LIVE: Israel bombs al-Mawasi, killing 11, as flooding worsens Gaza crisis
Israeli forces bombed the so-called <humanitarian zone> of al-Mawasi in southern Gaza, killing at least 11 Palestinians, as rain, cold and a lack of food worsens the humanitarian crisis caused by 14 months of war. Israeli defence minister Israel Katz warns Hamas that if it does not stop attacks on his country and does not release captives held in Gaza, the group <will receive blows with a force not seen> in a long time.>>
Read more/video: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/2/live-israel-kills-28-in-gaza-as-7th-palestinian-baby-freezes-to-death

Al Jazeera - Jan 1 2025
<<Al Jazeera slams Palestinian Authority move to suspend West Bank operations
The network says the PA's decision is 'in line with the [Israeli] occupation's actions against its staff'. Al Jazeera has deplored the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) decision to close its office in the occupied West Bank, calling it a move that is <in line with the [Israeli] occupation's actions against its staff>. "Al Jazeera Media Network denounces the Palestinian Authority's decision to freeze its work and coverage in the West Bank. It considers this decision nothing but an attempt to dissuade the channel from covering the rapidly escalating events taking place in the occupied territories," the Qatar-based network said in a statement on Thursday. "And - unfortunately - such a decision comes in line with the previous action taken by the Israeli government, which closed Al Jazeera's office in Ramallah," the statement added, calling on the PA to "immediately retract and cancel the decision" and allow its teams to cover freely from the occupied West Bank "without any threats or intimidation". "Al Jazeera stresses that this decision will not deter it from its commitment to continue its professional coverage of events and developments in the West Bank," it said. On Wednesday, the PA temporarily suspended the work of Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank over <inciting material>, the Palestinian official news agency Wafa reported. A ministerial committee that included the culture, interior and communications ministries decided to suspend the broadcaster's operations for what they described as broadcasting <inciting material and reports that were deceiving and stirring strife> in the country. The decision came after Fatah, the Palestinian faction which dominates the PA, banned Al Jazeera from reporting from the governorate of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, citing its coverage of clashes between the Palestinian security forces and Palestinian armed groups in the area. Fatah on December 24 had accused the broadcaster of sowing division in <our Arab homeland in general and in Palestine in particular> and encouraged Palestinians not to cooperate with the network. In response, the network slammed Fatah, saying it had launched an "incitement campaign" against the network and its journalists in the occupied West Bank for its coverage of the clashes. In its statement on Thursday, Al Jazeera Media Network said that preventing its journalists from conducting their duties is "an attempt to hide the truth about events in the occupied territories, especially what is happening in Jenin and its camps". The network said it was "shocked by this decision, which comes at a time when the war on the Gaza Strip is still ongoing, and the systematic targeting and killing of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation forces". It said it holds the PA "fully responsible for the safety and security" of all its employees in the occupied West Bank. Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut, reporting from the Jordanian capital Amman, said Palestinian security forces' raids in Jenin were unpopular among the Palestinians in the West Bank. "The PA has been conducting its own raids that are separate from Israeli forces ... the PA has stepped up those raids in the last four weeks," Salhut said. "These crackdowns in places like Jenin have killed several Palestinians."
'A big mistake'
Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, said Palestinians would be "astonished at this decision" to suspend Al Jazeera broadcasts. "I think it's a big mistake and this decision should be reversed as soon as possible," Barghouti told Al Jazeera from Ramallah.
"If the PA has an issue with Al Jazeera, it should discuss it," he said, especially since Al Jazeera has been "exposing the crimes against the Palestinian people ... and [has been] promoting the Palestinian cause in general". "But more than that, it is an issue of freedom of ... the press," Barghouti said. Israeli forces in September issued Al Jazeera with a military order to shut down operations after they raided the outlet’s bureau in the West Bank city of Ramallah - where the PA is based. Meanwhile, the PA, which engages in security coordination with Israel, has continued its crackdown in Jenin - a stronghold for Palestinian armed groups opposing Israel's occupation. Several civilians, PA soldiers and armed fighters have been killed since the start of "Operation Protect the Homeland", including Jenin Brigades commander Yazid Ja'ayseh. The fighting has heightened Palestinian criticism of the PA, with the Popular Resistance Committees umbrella group accusing it of operating "in line with the Zionist agenda".>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/1/palestinian-authority-suspends-al-jazeera-operations-in-the-west-bank

Al Jazeera - Jan 1 2025 - Al Jazeera Live - By Mersiha Gadzo and Edna Mohamed
<<Israelis celebrate the new year while their army kills Palestinians in Gaza
While Israeli revelers partied in Tel Aviv, Palestinians in Gaza spent New Year's Eve fleeing Israeli bombardment, mourning the loss of loved ones, and salvaging what they could from their flooded tents.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/1/1/israelis-celebrate-the-new-year-while-their-army-kills-palestinians-in-gaza

Al Jazeera - Jan 1 2025
<<Israeli attacks kill at least 20 Palestinians across Gaza on New Year's Day
Attacks reported from Jabalia in the north, Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza and the southern city of Khan Younis. Heavy rain soaks war-torn Gaza, adds to misery for displaced people. Israelis celebrate the new year while their army kills Palestinians in Gaza. Israeli attacks have killed at least 20 Palestinians, including children, in Gaza on New Year's Day, as makeshift shelters for displaced people across the Strip flooded after days of heavy rain. The attacks were reported on Wednesday in Jabalia in northern Gaza, Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza and the southern city of Khan Younis.
Gaza's Health Ministry said four children and one woman were among the dead. At least 10 other Palestinians were missing and believed to be under the rubble. "Fifteen people were martyred and more than 20 were injured in a massacre after midnight in a house where displaced people were living in the town of Jabalia," Gaza civil defence agency's spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said. A relative of some of the victims said the first responders were still searching for survivors. "The house has turned into a pile of debris," said Jibri Abu Warda. "It was a massacre with body parts of children and women scattered everywhere. They were sleeping when the house was bombed," Abu Warda said. "No one knows why they targeted the house. They were all civilians." An attack overnight in Bureij refugee camp killed a woman and a child, according to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the bodies. A third strike in Khan Younis killed three people, according to the Nasser Hospital and the European Hospital, which received the bodies. The civil defence agency said it has been finding it hard to respond to distress calls from families because of intense Israeli bombardment over the past few days. "Those besieged in the areas of incursion suffer from a complete lack of livelihood. The suspension of our services has completely affected the lives of citizens who are exposed to Israeli bombardment," a civil defence member told Al Jazeera. "The New Year arrives in Gaza, not with joy or hope, but with the boom of fighter jets, drones, and eardrum-shattering explosion sounds," said Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza. Israel's war on Gaza has killed at least 45,553 Palestinians and wounded 108,379 since October 7, 2023, Gaza's Health Ministry said on Wednesday. "It's not just Israeli bombs and the forced displacement that are overwhelming Palestinians, but also the severe cold weather. Many of them are in tents, lacking warm winter clothing, and they are trying to cope with it all by resorting to primitive means of heating," Abu Azzoum said. Days of heavy rain have flooded hundreds of makeshift shelters across the enclave, piling more misery on forcibly displaced Palestinians as Israel continues to restrict entry of humanitarian aid. At least six infants have died from the cold in recent days. "For three days, we haven't slept out of fear that our children would fall sick because of the winter, as well as fear of missiles falling on us," said Samah Darabieh, a woman displaced from central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah and now living in Beit Lahiya. Throughout their 15-month assault on Gaza, Israeli forces have routinely besieged and attacked medical facilities housing both patients and displaced families. "Two days ago, they bombed Al-Wafaa hospital, which is behind us, and the shrapnel dropped here," Darabieh said. Last week, Israeli forces raided north Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, forcibly evacuating medical staff and patients from the facility and arresting the hospital’s director, Dr Hussam Abu Safia, whose whereabouts remain unknown. Kamal Adwan Hospital is "suffering from a stifling siege, as the operating and surgery departments, laboratory, maintenance, ambulance units and warehouses have been completely burned", the Gaza Health Ministry said. The United Nations has said Israel’s attacks on Gaza's hospitals have pushed its healthcare system to "the brink of total collapse", and Israeli justifications that Palestinian armed groups use health facilities are "vague, broad" and "contradicted by publicly available information". Israel's continuing assault on Gaza has drawn growing international condemnation, with officials and rights groups labelling the attacks and blocking of aid deliveries as acts of genocide. In November, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its deadly war on Gaza.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/1/israel-kills-at-least-22-palestinians-across-gaza-on-new-year-day

Al Jazeera - Jan 1 2025
<<LIVE: New Year’s Day massacre: Israel kills dozens of Palestinians in Gaza
No respite for Palestinians as Israeli attacks continue on New Year's Day
At least 29 Palestinians, including children and women, are killed throughout Gaza on New Year's Day in Israeli attacks in northern Jabalia, the central Bureij refugee camp, Gaza City, and southern Khan Younis. Days of heavy rain have flooded hundreds of makeshift shelters across the Strip, piling more misery on displaced Palestinians as Israel continues to restrict the entry of humanitarian aid.>>
Read more>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/1/live-israel-pounds-gaza-as-winter-worsens-misery-of-war-weary-palestinians

Al Jazeera - Jan 1 2025
<<In Pictures - Gallery
Heavy rains continue to compound misery of displaced Palestinians in Gaza
Forcibly displaced families struggle to keep their children warm as cold weather kills infants amid Israeli genocide. Days of heavy rains have flooded hundreds of makeshift shelters across Gaza, piling more misery on displaced Palestinians as Israel continues to restrict the entry of humanitarian aid amid its genocide. Forcibly displaced families across Gaza are struggling to keep their children warm and save what few belongings they are left with. While the weather is expected to improve in the coming days, for some, it is already too late. At least seven people, including six babies, have died of hypothermia over the past week. The cold weather has placed Gaza’s already devastated healthcare system under further strain. A field hospital was flooded in southern Gaza's Khan Younis city. The Palestinian Civil Defence says floodwaters rose to more than 30cm (12 inches) in the affected tents, leaving displaced Palestinians exposed to the cold and causing damage to their belongings and mattresses. The emergency service said the tents - located in areas including northern Gaza City, southern Khan Younis, as well as in central Deir el-Balah - were rendered unusable because of the flooding. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians are crammed into unsuitable tents, most of which were hastily set up in Deir el-Balah, Khan Younis and Rafah, as Gaza's 2.4 million residents endure severe shortages of drinkable water, food and medicines. Israel's genocide in Gaza has killed at least 45,541 Palestinians and wounded 108,338 since October 7, 2023.>>
View photos: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/1/1/heavy-rains-continue-to-compound-misery-of-displaced-palestinians-in-gaza

France 24 - Dec 31, 2024 - By: NEWS WIRES
<<Health system in northern Gaza has been 'obliterated', Red Cross says
The health care system in northern Gaza has been "obliterated" with hospitals "completely inoperable", the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Monday, leaving sick and wounded civilians in "grave risk". The International Committee of the Red Cross said Monday the health care system in northern Gaza had been "obliterated" by fighting in the Israel-Hamas war, with hospitals rendered "completely inoperable". "Repeated hostilities in and around hospitals have obliterated the health care system in northern Gaza, putting civilians at an unacceptably grave risk of going without lifesaving care," the ICRC said in a statement. It called for the respect and protection of medical facilities in line with international humanitarian law.
"This protection is a legal obligation and a moral imperative to preserve human life," it added, saying hospitals were a lifeline for those sick or wounded in conflict. The Al-Awda Hospital, previously supported by the ICRC with supplies, was now absorbing more pressure as one of the few functioning medical facilities in northern Gaza, the Geneva-based organisation said. "The Kamal Adwan and Indonesian hospitals are now completely inoperable. For months, these medical facilities have struggled to provide care for patients as ongoing hostilities have damaged hospitals and endangered or harmed staff, patients, and civilians." Israel launched a major raid on the Kamal Adwan Hospital on Friday and Saturday. Israel's military said Sunday that its forces had killed approximately 20 Palestinian militants and apprehended <240 terrorists> in the raid, calling it one of its <largest operations> conducted in the territory. It left northern Gaza's last major health facility out of service and emptied of patients, the World Health Organization said. Since October 6 this year, Israeli operations in Gaza have focused on the north, with officials saying their land and air offensive aims to prevent Hamas from regrouping. "No patient can expect their medical needs to be fully met today," the ICRC said of the situation.
"The influx of patients, caregivers, and displaced civilians seeking shelter creates a situation that medical personnel cannot solve. The increasingly dangerous situation comes in addition to more than a year of insufficient provision of medical equipment and supplies, fuel, food, and specialised healthcare capacities." The ICRC said it remained committed to supporting healthcare services wherever possible, including doing what it could to ensure the protection of medical responders and civilian access to health care, as well as facilitating movements of medical personnel and equipment.>>
(AFP) >> Source: https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20241230-red-cross-health-care-north-gaza-obliterated

Al Jazeera - Dec 31 2024
<<Gaza hospitals on 'brink of total collapse' from Israel attacks: UN
UN report says 136 strikes on Gaza hospitals have caused critical damage and casualties among medical personnel.
A UN report says Israel's claims that Gaza hospitals are being used for military purposes by Palestinian armed groups are "vague" amid continuing Israeli attacks on health facilities protected under international law. The report - released on Tuesday by the UN human rights office - said Israeli strikes targeting hospitals and their surroundings in the Gaza Strip have pushed the territory's healthcare system "to the brink of total collapse with catastrophic effect on Palestinians' access to health and medical care". The 23-page report looked at the period from October 7, 2023, to June 30, 2024. During this time there were at least 136 attacks on 27 hospitals and 12 other medical facilities, inflicting significant casualties among doctors, nurses, medics, and other civilians while causing significant damage to, if not the complete destruction of, civilian infrastructure.
'A death trap'
The report highlighted that international humanitarian law explicitly protects medical personnel and hospitals as long as they do not engage in or are not used to commit acts harmful to the enemy outside their humanitarian function. "Insufficient information has so far been made publicly available to substantiate these allegations, which have remained vague and broad, and in some cases appear contradicted by publicly available information," the UN report said. The deliberate destruction of healthcare facilities "may amount to a form of collective punishment, which would also constitute a war crime", it added. "The one sanctuary where Palestinians should have felt safe in fact became a death trap," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said. "The protection of hospitals during warfare is paramount and must be respected by all sides at all times." Israel has in recent days escalated attacks on the besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, detaining its director. The World Health Organization said the Kamal Adwan Hospital's remaining 15 critical patients, 50 caregivers, and 20 health workers were transferred on Friday to the nearby Indonesian Hospital, which it described as "destroyed and non-functional". Hamas dismissed Israel's assertion its members operated from the hospital throughout the 15-month Gaza war, saying no fighters had been there. Former Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas told Al Jazeera even if his country did provide evidence to back up claims that Hamas used medical facilities for military operations, it would not justify attacking hospitals. "There is a discrepancy between the big headlines ... and the failure to come up with the evidence to support this," he said. While the Israeli military said more than 250 Hamas fighters were arrested at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, Pinkas noted even if that is true, it still "does not justify rendering the hospital inoperative".
Transparent investigation
The report called for credible, independent investigations into the health facility attacks, emphasising the "limitations" of Israel's justice system in addressing the actions of its armed forces. "It is essential that there be independent, thorough and transparent investigations of all of these incidents, and full accountability for all violations of international humanitarian and human rights law which have taken place," said Turk. He also urged that "all medical workers arbitrarily detained must be immediately released". "It must also be a priority for Israel, as the occupying power, to ensure and facilitate access to adequate healthcare for the Palestinian population," Turk said.
Israel's war on Gaza has killed more than 45,500 people in the besieged territory, mostly civilians, according to the Health Ministry.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/31/gaza-hospitals-on-brink-of-total-collapse-from-israel-attacks-un
 

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